“All works of art bear the artist’s signature. If there is no signature, there is no work of art. And by ‘art,’ I don’t mean only paintings, sculpture, films, plays: I mean anything in life that is done well and carefully. In my opinion, our age commits its greatest crime when it kills the author or makes him disappear. Before what we call progress, a man who made dishes was expressing his personality just as much as Picasso does in his paintings. Today this is no longer true.”
Jean Renoir (interviewed in Charles Thomas Samuels, Encountering Directors)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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